Padma Lakshmi Strips (Photos) Chocolate Covered Sexy "Top Chef"

National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA - Padma Lakshmi is a former model.  The sexy brunette's career began at age 20, when a modeling agent in Spain discovered her.  Lakshmi established herself as a food expert early on in her career, having hosted two successful cooking shows and writing a best-selling cookbook. Lakshmi follows this success with the publication of her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, Bravo notes in an online bio.

The entry adds, "A follow up to her successful book Easy Exotic, for which she won the International Versailles Event for best cookbook by a first time writer, it will be a larger endeavor filled with over 120 recipes from around the world and intriguing personal memoirs."

Padma Lakshmi has hosted Padma's Passport in the Food Network.  The sexy food sweetie is currently on Top Chef.  According to the television coverage website Buddy TV, in Padma Lakshmi's pre-season conference call, she admitted that she gains weight every Top Chef season.  See all of her sexy undressed and semi clad pictures here, she is a gorgeous model and chef.